Reducing the Contingent Appropriation in the General Fund by $225,000.00; appropriating that amount for the purpose of funding the ongoing operations of the American Jazz Museum; directing the City Manager with respect to the existing contractual relationship with the American Jazz Museum, Inc.; providing for an organizational assessment of the assets; requiring that the City Manager make his recommendations for the management of the assets at the conclusion of the organizational assessment; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

Reducing the Contingent Appropriation in the General Fund
by $225,000.00; appropriating that amount for the purpose of funding the
ongoing operations of the American Jazz Museum; directing the City Manager with
respect to the existing contractual relationship with the American Jazz Museum,
Inc.; providing for an organizational assessment of the assets; requiring that
the City Manager make his recommendations for the management of the assets at
the conclusion of the organizational assessment; and recognizing this ordinance
as having an accelerated effective date.

WHEREAS, the American Jazz Museum, Inc. currently leases
and manages certain City assets including, without limitation, the
American Jazz Museum, the Blue Room, the Horace Peterson III 18th and Vine
Visitor Center, the tenant space for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and the
Gem Theater; and

WHEREAS, that the Management Agreement and Lease is
currently scheduled to expire as of April 30, 2018; and

WHEREAS, there is new momentum and forward motion within
the 18th & Vine Historic District, due in large part to the new oversight
and direction with the establishment of the 18th & Vine District
Development Policy Committee, and the City has an opportunity to evaluate and
implement meaningful changes, if appropriate, with regards to the management of
the City’s assets; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the appropriation in the following account
of the General Fund is reduced by the following amount:

18-1000-179990-B Contingent Appropriation $225,000.00

Section 2. That $225,000.00 is appropriated from the
Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Fund to the following accounts:

18-1000-071716-B American Jazz Museum $225,000.00

Section 3. That the Management Agreement and Lease between
the City and the American Jazz Museum, Inc. dated May 1, 2016, as the same were
previously amended, shall not be extended for an additional term and shall be
permitted to expire on April 30, 2018 absent further directive from the City
Council.

Section 4. That
the City Manager shall, through a third party if necessary, promptly perform an
organizational assessment of the City assets including, without
limitation, the American Jazz Museum, the Blue Room, the Horace Peterson III
18th and Vine Visitor Center, the tenant space for the Negro Leagues Baseball
Museum and the Gem Theater to be managed under the oversight of the General
Services Department. The organizational assessment will have participation by,
but not be limited to, individuals and representatives of the following groups,
in addition to others as may be desirable:

A. 18th & Vine Development Policy Committee

B. Parks and Recreation Department

C. City Manager’s Office

D. General Services

E. Finance

F. American Jazz Museum, Inc.

G. Negro League Baseball Museum

H. One citizen representative

I. Mutual Musicians Foundation

The organizational assessment shall
engage in a discovery and planning phase with respect to the ongoing management
of the assets from and after May 1, 2018. Such phase shall include the
following objectives, in addition to those which the City Manager might deem
appropriate for the purposes of implementing the provisions of this ordinance:

1.Analyze and assess the governance structure, operations,
financials, and programming of the assets; and

2.Suggest business and funding plan objectives, based on
available best practices, for the ongoing management of the assets.

Section 5. That the City
Manager shall use the information from the organizational assessment to
recommend to the City Council what entity should manage, or cause a third party
contractor to manage, the assets from and after May 1, 2018 in a manner
consistent with the recommendation to be developed. As the 18th & Vine
Development Policy Committee is uniquely positioned to offer valuable insight
as to the management of the City’s assets, given its role with regards to the
18th & Vine Historic District, the City Manager shall ensure that the
transfer of management responsibility to the recommended entity includes an opportunity
for the 18th & Vine Development Policy Committee to consult
with and advise the recommended entity’s staff with respect to management
matters.

Section 6. That nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit the City from
negotiating and executing a new agreement with the American Jazz Museum, Inc.,
for the period commencing from and after May 1, 2018 in the event the
operational assessment concludes that the American Jazz Museum, Inc. has
structured and positioned itself in such a manner that it would be in the
City’s best interests for the American Jazz Museum, Inc. to have a continuing
role in the management of the City’s assets.

Section 7. That this ordinance is recognized as having an
accelerated effective date within the provisions of Section 503(A)(3)(C) of the
City Charter in that it appropriates money, and shall take effect in accordance
with that section.

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I hereby certify that there is a balance, otherwise
unencumbered, to the credit of the appropriation to which the foregoing
expenditure is to be charged, and a cash balance, otherwise unencumbered, in
the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made, each
sufficient to meet the obligation hereby incurred.